Town

Restaurants

There are three restaurants in the town of Pescadero, and a few others nearby on the coast and in the redwoods. All offer a unique northern California dining experience offering fresh Pescadero area produce.

Shops

Shops in Pescadero offer unique, locally made products. Luna sea, made in pescadero and norms bakery are long time favorites while Shuman's pottery and the antique shop are fairly new. And the restaurant in the Pescadero Country store is still a work in process.

Harley's Goat Farm and Dairy

Harley's Goat Farm and Dairy is the most award winning goat farm in Northern California. The coastal salt air gives the cheese a distinctive flavor favored by restaurants throughout the San Franciscoa Bay Area. Farm tours and dinners are available by reservation.

Festivals

Pescadero's festival history dates to the '60's when under the guise of a bike race, as documented in Tom Wolfe's book, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver played an acid test in town at the IDES Hall.

Historic Pescadero

The date usually assigned to the founding of Pescadero is 1856, when the first store opened in town. In addition to local fishing and farming, Pescadero was an attractive vacation destination early on, as evidenced by the three hotels in town before the turn of the century.